Archive for April 5th, 2011

ebay is sending out newsletters telling everybody they will reduce the listing fee, as I said before if listing fee is reduced, then, the finally valule fee will go up , eBay will never let you pay less, not even one cent less— well, I was so right, just received another news letter: eBay will collect finall value fee on Shipping as well. which means, if you charge $1.00 shipping, you’ll have to pay eBay $0.15 Final value Fee, so the buyer will have to pay $1.oo+$0.15=$1.15 to cover the seller’s total cost.

whenever eBay makes changes, its purpose is to make you pay MORE, it doesnt matter if you are a seller or buyer.

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everyone collects differenctly, your life experiences certainly have great impacts on the way you collecting.

I have lived in 7 cities (gee, all big cities, which means “large populations & small apartment space”) & 2 countries. everytime when I needed to move, I had to “trash” a lot of my “treasures”–simply not everything you loved could go with you. so I developed this rules: keep my place simple, dont pile up clutters, no extra fornitures, no unfitted clothes… my friends always told me that my place is too “empty” as I would not even hang a painting on the wall… wherever I arrived in a new place, I was ready to move to the next and I wanted to finish packing in 5 minutes… All becomes habits that I dont like to keep too much stuff and I dont buy souvenirs for myself if I travel to new cities, I only buy the items that I will give away as gifts.

how this experience has impact my Barbie collecting?–even I know I wont make any move in the very near future (wow, NYC is the city I’ve stayed the longest, more than a decade now), I still dont want large collections, if it grows big, I will downsize it right away. and I certainly dont keep everything, if I bought a doll b/c I love her face, then, I put her outfits on ebay right away, or vice versa.

this week, I decided to find a way to sell off all of my repro dolls, as I purchased lots silkstone dolls last week. since my repros all have vintage sculpts, same as the silkstone dolls, I wont miss them if they leave me.

but its a tough task to find them new homes without losing too much money